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... Pākehā writers and students of tradition who preserved and sometimes published Māori writings , and at the same time recorded their own experiences and interpretations . While much of this early Pākehā literature is now dated in various ...
... Pākehā writers and students of tradition who preserved and sometimes published Māori writings , and at the same time recorded their own experiences and interpretations . While much of this early Pākehā literature is now dated in various ...
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... Pākehā understood it . Another difficulty was that the Pākehā claimed that only their god was tapu . The complex inter- play of tapu and noa , sacred and profane , which had ordered all Māori activities and experience of the world , had ...
... Pākehā understood it . Another difficulty was that the Pākehā claimed that only their god was tapu . The complex inter- play of tapu and noa , sacred and profane , which had ordered all Māori activities and experience of the world , had ...
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... Pākehā students of tradition ; perhaps , too , these Pākehā men were less likely to note the source of information when it had been provided by a woman . Yet one form of women's literature is well recorded . Māori men wrote down , in ...
... Pākehā students of tradition ; perhaps , too , these Pākehā men were less likely to note the source of information when it had been provided by a woman . Yet one form of women's literature is well recorded . Māori men wrote down , in ...
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Aotea Aotearoa Arawa associated atua became Best birds brothers carved daughter death descendants early ancestor earth east coast enemy fairies father fernroot fire fish gourd greenstone Grey guardian Harbour Hauraki Hawaiki Hine-nui-te-pō homeland of Hawaiki human Ihenga Kahukura Kāwhia killed known kūmara Kupe Lake land lived Māori married Maru Mātaatua Māui mauri mountain myth Ngā Ngāti Kahungunu Ngāti Porou Ngātoro-i-rangi night ocean Orbell Pākehā plants powers Puhi rangatira Rangi and Papa Raukawa recited region reptile returned ritual chants River rock Rongo Rotorua Ruatapu sacred sailed shore sometimes songs South Island stars stone story Tainui Tama Tama-te-kapua Tāmaki Tāne Tangaroa taniwha tapu Taranaki Tāwhaki Te Arawa Tiki tipua tohunga told took tradition tree tūāhu Turanga Uenuku vessel voyage from Hawaiki Waikato wairua waka warriors west coast Whaitiri Whakatāne whale Whanganui whatu Whiro wife woman women